Homesteading is thought to be one one of the best ways to prepare for any long-term disaster. Although bugging out is possible, having your own piece of land in a (semi) secluded place is ideal.
Read the articles below to learn how to homestead on a small piece of land because it takes time to become good at them. The sooner you start, the sooner you’ll be prepared.
Some of the things you’ll learn include:
Rendering tallow and preserving it will allow you to create a valuable multi-purpose prep that can last for many months – even longer than a year on the shelf. Both tallow and lard were once popular kitchen staples, but after they got a bad rap from the health food industry, it is nearly impossible to …
Stockpiling toilet paper as part of your long-term disaster survival plan can be a bit tricky. Toilet paper takes up a whole lot of room to store, and will absorb destructive moisture if there is even a tiny rip in the package. If you put paper to pencil and do a little factoring, the amount …
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Preserving your potato harvest, or store-bought potatoes on a year round basis to ensure you have amassed the stockpile you need for SHTF requires a decent amount of space, but is an otherwise simple survival endeavor. Folks working within some rather intense space constraints, such as apartments, can still put up hundreds of pounds of …
Choosing a survival retreat or prepper homestead is a major decision. It may mean relocating, making a loan commitment, and even altering your career choice. But taking this self-reliance leap can pay off with huge dividends… like saving your life. One of the first things a person ponders when becoming a prepper is whether they …
Foraging is not only an essential survival skill to have honed if you ever find yourself in a survival situation, it should also a vital part of your prepping and food security plan. Free resources abound, thanks to nature, and all preppers should be taking advantage of them – especially when it comes to harvesting …
Foraging Hickory Nuts: How to Identify, Harvest, and Preserve Read More »
Preppers are prone to stockpiling wheat as part of the family’s food security plan. While doing so is an excellent idea, one day those 5-gallon buckets of wheat might run out. Buying long-term wheat buckets can not only get rather expensive, they take up a lot of storage space. Growing your own wheat, especially red …
If you are not absolutely new to prepping, you have heard it stated many times that a SHTF event could suddenly jettison us back to an 1800s era existence. It will not take a cyber attack on the power grid or an EMP attack to cause modern society to step back in history a few …
How a Visit to an 1800s-Style Village Can Help You Prepare for SHTF Read More »
Chicory has been used for both medicinal and edible purposes for more than 5,000 years. Not only does chicory taste delicious as coffee and jelly, it can help heal and prevent a plethora of health problems. The wild chicory plant typically boasts a blue to purple flower, but the petals can be either white or …
Chicory Wildcrafting: How to Find and Use This Powerful Plant Read More »
Protecting your stockpile from rodents can seem like a never ending battle – especially when you appear to be losing the war. Not only is it essential that we keep our stockpiled preps out of the paws and mouths of rodents now, but especially after the actual SHTF event. If a mouse gets into your …
Long-term and sustainable milk options are far more than many preppers realize. Keeping livestock or spending a lot of money (and using a ton of space) to stockpile commercially manufactured powdered milk are only two of many ways to ensure there will be milk to drink, cook, and bake with during a SHTF event. Milk …
